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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-01-18, Page 7Changing Colors Of Old Scotland Tkle atinoopheh'e In the north- west of Scotland is, iithough soft and despite the moisture that often congeals In rain, a clear One, inueh more so than in the south -West, There is a silken reuelity to the air of a sunny day in the Hebrides. And here the colours .are famous; even fab- ulous. �Viany painters have tried to recapture the colours of the Iona shore. it is not easy to do so in terms of paint, for the hues are as ephemeral as if they were alive, as if one was always just about to pass into another, ehang- ing'as the tide rolls across rooky reef and silver sand, and ranging between a more than imperial purple where the tangle covers the seabed to a sheer kingfisher blue or turquoise evanescent green over the sand, 'The round- ed pebbles of a shingle bay in Iona include green marble, red granite, 'a black stone with a silvery silicate veining, all gleam- ing with the sea upon them, holding the beauty of jewels but none of the curse of riches, , . The clear Atlantic water is Much kinder to colour than the more drumlie North Sea. Bright blue it pan be even in rough weather; picked out with white catspaws; so blue that it seems surprising that the plunging gan- nets should re-emerge from it white at all. On a good day the North Sea can be deeply blue, but, in a long acquaintance with the Firth of Forth, I have seen it looking mysterious in the west- ern way, with subtle greens, not half a dozen times, although it can catch a certain splendour from the rising or setting sun, and has its own moods of pallor or sombreness, Quite different from the clear Hebridean light, the light of the Orkney Islands has, a marked opacity: its landscapes seem all to have been painted with a heavy base of Chinese white. A hundred miles further north the Shetland air is quite different again, truly nordic, with a brood- ing hint of the Arctic Circle be- hind it, often a skyful of dark clouds with bright pools of light intensified by the contrast. And In Shetland, of course, we have the most pronounced both of those fascinating effects of long shadow, and of the undarkening night of midsummer... . The nights of northern mid- summer are curious, without darkness but with colour and shadow very little determined by the light left to the memory of the departing day as it fuses with the promise of the coming dawn. In Shetland the winter day is, in contrast, almost devoured al- together by night encroaching at either end... Lastly, there are the colour freaks of - pure light. The Nor- thern Lights, the merry dancers, may be seen night after night in the Highlands and Islands, wan and fitfull usually but sometimes flaring into reds and greens, oc- casionally filling the whole sky with unearthly abandon—From "Scotland: Land of Colour," In- troduction and Text by George Scott-Moncrieff. WHOSE FUTURE? The future belongs to those who are virile, to whom it is a pleasure to live, to create, to whet their intelligence on that of the others. —Sir Henri Deterding. DRIVE WITH CARE ! MERRY MENAGERIE 'Okay, he's asleep. Now. when. 1 give the signal, we B0TH start barking!" "Templehof is small and located in the heart of Berlin , planes must bank sharply to land." Above is the view from the cockpit of a DC -6B as it drops down for a landing. Through The Air Tunnel To West Berlin By TOM A, CULLEN, Newspaper Enterprise Assn. BERLIN - (NEA) -- The pilot banked, then headed the DC -6B into the Berlin air corridor as coolly as though he was turning into one of Germany's auto- bahns. For the next 253 miles we would be separated from the red sea of East Germany by an air strip only 20 miles wide. We would be flying down one of the three air tunnels which link West Berlin with the free world. Theoretically, if we deviated by so much as a mile in either direction we could be forced down by East German fighters, or shot down in flames. I say "theoretically," for nothing of this sort has happened. But not until we reached Ber- lin's Templehof airport could we again breathe in safety. Yet Pan American World Airways, which Is the sole American carrier op- erating in Berlin, flies 32 round our identity. But there has been absolutely no provocation." Flight Captain Al Bisson, whose guest I was on the 0940 hours flight from Munich to Ber- lin, prefers tunnel to corridor as a desecription of the Berlin air route. "It's more like flying through a 20 -mile wide tunnel," he explains, 'because we are not only hemmed in on either side, but we must not fly below 2,500 feet nor above 10,000 feet. it gives some people claustropho- bia." • By a strange coincidence, Bis- son was born in another Berlin —Berlin, N.H., and he regards this as a lucky omen. "See thin salient?" he said pointing on a map to a wooded area. "It's pretty common knowl- edge that the East Germans have a missile base located in these woods. Therefore, we are careful not to cut any corners here." A little further on, the head- phones I was wearing began to crackle with data given out by Hoorn:Pier t r ' ` BON.NN fRANKFURT• • ,WEST GERMANY MAP SHOWS the three allied air corridors between West Germany and. West Berlin. Flights from Munich, in southern Germany, travel north and pick up the Frankfurt corridor just west of the East German border. trips down the Berlin corridors daily. Its pilots shuttle down the corridors as many as six times a day. Just how dangerous is it to fly down the Berlin air corridors? What is the morale of the pilots? To find out I have just com- pleted trips from Munich to Ber- lin, and from Berlin to Frankfurt in the cockpits of Pan American DC-6Bs. I have talked to a num- ber of pilots. Contrary to some stories that have appeared in the T7.S. press, I found their morale to be exceedingly high. None of those I talked to has asked for a transfer since the Berlin crisis began, To a man they were fighting mad about stories that they were getting jittery and losing their nerve. They also branded as false the rumor that commercial air liners are being buzzed, or other- wise harassed in the air corridors by Soviet MIGs. Flight Captain. Graham W. Jones, of Ft. Smith, Ark., says: "When we are flying down the corridor we often see Communist planes take off or land at their airports below. Sometimes these planes have even flown along- side us long enough to establish rr, s5 &ES TI PrtoJ:T PROJECT GNOME -- i''his 'Jrtist s conception based on U S. Ar• rnic Energy Coirmission site, hes shows the shape of the twine) in which an at, mic 'leve e will be set off. The site of this project is Carlsbad, N M. an American radar post which identified itself only by the code name of "Telegram." "Telegram," I was told, would monitor our flight for half of the way through the corridor, then the Berlin radar posts would take over. Meanwhile, fog had closed in, and visibility had dropped to 500 yards, according to the reports. The co-pilot and engineer went about their business calmly, re- sponding to the slightest change recorded by their instrument. dials. About 4 miles from Temp- elhof, Ground Control Approach took over and began to talk us down•for a West landing. As we lost altitude the crew showed signs of tension for the first time during the entire flight. Templehof is small and located in the heart of Berlin, therefore jets' are barred, and even piston - engined planes must bank sharp- ly to land. Making an instrument landing in thick fog is no fun. A few hundred feet off the ground the fog suddenly lifted and we found ourselves coming in between parallel rows of red lights for a perfect landing, "Well," I said, as Captain Bis - son put his arms through the gold -braided sleeves of his uni- form coat and reached for his brief case, "I suppose you're free now until this afternoon." "Free?" the captain said in- credulously. "Hell no, I've just got time to grab a cup of coffee before flying this bus to Han- nover down the middle air cor- ridor." But the pressures and strain Om pilots operate under now are nothing compared to those dur- ing the 1948-49 Berlin air-lift a G "Have you ever "seen a man walk through a closed plate glass door because he was too tired to know what he was doing? "Well, that happened to one of our pilots at the height of the Berlin air lift in 1949, Walked right through the glass, and he was stone colcl sober. "Still, if we had to do it again, 1 guess we could. We could keep on flying, that is, until we drop- ped from sheer fatigue." The speaker was Capt, Jack 0. Bennett, the sole remaining vet- eran of the Berlin airlift now on active flight duty as a pilot in Berlin. He was assessing the fit- ness of American commercial pilots here to mount another such operation should it be nec- essary, a , r During the 11 months starting in June, 1948, every pound of food and every ton of coal to keep the people of West Berlin alive was transported by air. In a total of 277,728 flights, British, American and French airmen brought in 2,343,301 tons of food and supplies. At the peak of the airlift, planes were landing in West Ber- lin at the rate of one every 45 seconds. There were casualties, too -72 men lost their lives in ac- cidents. "Sure, we could do it again if we had to," the captain said reflectively. "But we ought not to have to resort to another air- lift," he added, "Someone should stand up to Khrushchev before it becomes a question of Berlin being cut off by road and rail. If we are that we won't need another airlift." Planting Hair On Bald Heads Any suburbanite who has spent a weekend implanting plugs of plush Zoysia grass into his sparse lawn can appreciate the logic be- hind a new method for treating common male baldness. At the American- Academy of Dermatology meeting in Chicago recently, Dr. Norman Orentreich of New York University reported that he has been doing essential- ly the same thing to refurbish gleaming pates. He simply re- moves small patches of hair from the fringe around the side of the patient's head and drops them into skin-deep holes prepared on the bare scalp. Initially, the patches encrust and the trans- planted hair falls out, but in two or three months, the doctor said, they flourish again. doesn't seem to matter whether a man has been bald for five or 30 years," Dr. Orentreich declared. "Hair is still growing on my first patients, treated sev- en years ago." In virtually all of the 200 -odd cases treated since then, the method has proved, suc- cessful, he said. But he pointed out the operation doesn't grow new hair, it merely redistributes it. The New York dermatologist's reforestation procedures can be performed in the office, under local anesthesia and in a few sittings, Normalllll ten or twelve tufts are implanted each visit, The implants are obtained with a sharp circular punch, similar to a cookie cutter. The patches are placed about a quarter inch apart. Dr. Orentre- ich takes care to see 'that the growing angle of the hair on all the implants points in the same direction. "When the new stand of hair grows, it can be combed easily to cover intervening bare spots," he noted. The NYU physician got the Idea for his technique from the fact that plastic surgeons must carefully select skin grafts to avoid adorning parts of the body with unwanted hair. "I apply this principle in reverse." he states. He himself has thick black hair. "If I were bald." he ,aid "I wouldn't have the nerve to treat baldness. Did Vikings Land in N':wfoutidland? Most historians agree that the Vikings, led by Leif the Lucky. discovered the North American continent around A.D. 1000. But they have been unable to fold any solid evidence of where the fabled "Vinland. the site of the landing, was located. Last month, there was a surfeit of proof: Two explorers claimed they had dis- covered Leif's discovery. One claimant was Helge ings- ISSUE 52 —1961 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BABY CHICKS AND PPULTR1f GPr'1 H 8a N "Nick. 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